{"id":1438426,"date":"2022-04-14T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438426"},"modified":"2022-04-14T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:30:30","slug":"nvs-senate-race-heats-up-trump-endorsed-republican-adam-laxalt-leads-democrat-catherine-masto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nvs-senate-race-heats-up-trump-endorsed-republican-adam-laxalt-leads-democrat-catherine-masto\/","title":{"rendered":"NV&#039;s Senate Race Heats Up: Trump-Endorsed Republican Adam Laxalt Leads Democrat\u00a0Catherine Masto"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnvs-senate-race-heats-up-trump-endorsed-republican-adam-laxalt-leads-democrat-catherine-masto%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438426&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The much underreported Senate Nevada race is heating up in April as Trump-endorsed Republican Adam Laxalt leads Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV).<\/p>\n<p>With the 2022 midterms expected to be a huge red wave, Masto may lose her seat amid high crime, massive migrant surges, and 40-year-high inflation. Masto has not yet done much campaigning, electing instead to throw money at the problem. From the large amounts of money she has raised, Masto has spent large quantities of money on local TV ads.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>One of the largest problems Masto has is few know who she is and what she believes. Former Nevada Attorney General and current Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt, who is leading the GOP primary by a huge margin, has so far successfully tied Masto to Biden\u2019s failing policies, such as soft on crime, border security, and inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Masto has relied on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/04\/14\/why-hispanic-voters-could-cost-democrats-nevada-00025225\">touting<\/a>\u00a0Biden\u2019s coronavirus stimulus packages that\u00a0have\u00a0fueled 40-year-high inflation. The tactic is a \u201cgeneric 2020 strategy for vulnerable senators,\u201d Politico Playbook reported.<\/p>\n<p>In Nevada, voters are worried about the direction of the nation and if the Democrat Party can heal the wounds created by Biden\u2019s presidency. Polling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/12\/poll-nevada-senate-republican-candidate-adam-laxalt-leads-democrat-sen-cortez-masto\/\">reported<\/a> by Breitbart News suggests Nevada voters are currently disenchanted with how Masto has governed with the Biden administration:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>72 percent of voters say the Democrats\u2019 economy is fair to poor<\/li>\n<li>Inflation is the top issue with 40 percent saying they were better off under Trump<\/li>\n<li>Masto is polling behind both Republicans Laxalt and\u00a0Sam Brown<\/li>\n<li>The leader of the Democrat Party, Biden, has only a 35 percent approval rating<b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The polling numbers suggest Masto is ripe for defeat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18201154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Catherine-Cortez-Masto-stare-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18201154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Catherine-Cortez-Masto-stare-ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., talks to reporters in her office in Reno (AP Photo\/Scott Sonner, File).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In March, Laxalt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/24\/exclusive-adam-laxalt-democrat-catherine-cortez-masto-enabled-left-to-demonize-law-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0Breitbart News that Masto has enabled the radical left\u2019s efforts to \u201cdemonize\u201d law enforcement, who are trying to capture migrants walking across the border, but is now changing her tune with the imminent election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNevada law enforcement deserves an advocate in the U.S. Senate who will consistently support them every single day, not just when an election year comes around,\u201d Laxalt said. \u201cCatherine Cortez Masto has enabled the left\u2019s efforts to demonize police officers and supported taxpayer-funded assistance for criminals, even after a Las Vegas police officer was\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/shay-mikalonis-las-vegas-police-officer-shot-george-floyd-protest-paralyzed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">shot<\/a>\u00a0during the 2020 riots. Now she\u2019s reversing herself\u00a0because it\u2019s a re-election year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I am elected, I will be a consistent ally for law enforcement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Laxalt\u2019s campaign comes after Nevada\u2019s political heavyweight, former Sen. Harry Reid, died in 2021, leaving the state\u2019s Democrat Party without a leader. Reid was a ruthless senator from 1987 to 2017, when he served as Barack Obama\u2019s Senate majority leader. While in office, Reid became the de facto leader of Nevada politics, turning Nevada from a red state to blue.<\/p>\n<p>After Reid left office, he remained a powerbroker in the state\u2019s politics. Masto\u2019s campaign will have to contend with surging Laxalt without help from Reid, though it is unknown if Reid would have any impact on how Nevada voters view the modern Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much underreported Senate Nevada race is heating up in April as Trump-endorsed Republican Adam Laxalt leads Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV). With the 2022 midterms expected to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}